Things to do in Nairobi and Mombasa

1/2 Day Karen Blixen Museum & giraffe centre

Pick up from your city hotel drive to Karen for a tour of the Karen Blixen Museum situated at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Museum was originally the home of Karen Blixen of the Out of Africa fame.

This is combined with a visit to the Giraffe Centre, an educational centre and part of African Fund for Endangered Wildlife. The park has a small herd of Rothschild’s Giraffe which are endangered specie and you will get a chance to feed them. The Nairobi Giraffe center is located 15kms from the city center. The center was founded in 1978 to save the Rothschild Giraffe from extinction. From a safe specially constructed platform, you may hand feed and make friends with the majestic resident Giraffes. You then proceed to Karen Blixen Museum, an immensely popular tourist attraction; The museum’s beautiful wood-panned rooms are filled with interesting archaeological artifacts. You will wind up the tour with a visit to the Utamaduni Craft Center. Here you will see the work of local wood and stone artists and also get an opportunity to purchase some souvenirs.

Later drive back to your respective hotel.

1/2 Day Nairobi City Tour

Pick up from your city hotel have a tour of the Nairobi City Centre, Shopping areas, Parliament Buildings, National Museum and Snake Park. Nairobi has grown from a small railway outpost to a major cosmopolitan center. It is the capital of Kenya and the largest

industrial and commercial city in East Africa with a population close to 4 million. Nairobi has a temperate climate all year round with warm days and cool nights. A guided city tour includes a visit to the famous Nairobi National Museum, the adjacent snake park, and Uhuru Park where one gets a splendid view of the city of Nairobi. Later drive back to your respective hotel.

1 day Nairobi National Park day trip

Pick up from your city hotel in the morning drive to Nairobi National Park going straight for a game drive until lunch time where you will have your lunch at the carnival restaurant. The park is only a few kilometres from the city centre. Of the big five, only the elephant is absent.

The Nairobi National Park is only 7km from Nairobi City centre. The small park (113sq. km) contains all the major animal species with the exception of the Elephant.

The sight of wildlife grazing majestically against the backdrop of the city skyline is a pleasant experience. After lunch visit the Nairobi Animal Orphanage, founded in 1963 to provide a home for injured and orphanage, founded young animals, Here the animals are nursed to good health and then released back to the wild. Later in the evening drive back to your respective hotel for diner and overnight.

1/2 Day Nature Trail Park

Pick up from you Mombasa hotel after lunch for the Bamburi Quarry Nature Trail. The wasteland of the stone quarry has been reclaimed and amongst the casuarina trees and other tropical flora reside a variety of wildlife and birds. Eland and buffalo, crocodiles and other reptiles can be seen wandering with crowned cranes. The

commercially viable aquaculture complex is also visited Later drive to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

Discover Mombasa by night

Pick up from your hotel at 5.30 p.m. for a romantic dhow sun downer cruise. Sail past the old port to Fort Jesus for the sound and light show. Dinner at the Fort and then you will be dropped to the hotel at around 10.00 p.m. (half night). Alternatively after dinner you will be taken to a Casino and play for

30 minutes- 1 hour and later driven to Bora-Bora Night Club for the mid-night show. You will be dropped at the hotel at around 1.30 a.m.

Full Day Wasini Island & Kisite Sea Adventure

Pick up from your Mombasa hotel in the morning at 6.30am drive to the tranquil fishing village of Shimoni, close to the Tanzanian border. The scenic route takes you through lush coconut and cashew nuts plantations and the colourful villages of the Digo people.

At Shimoni jet board an authentic motorized dhow, which cruise and sail you through an enchanting seascape of Islands to the underwater splendours of the Kisite Marine Park. Here snorkellers will marvel at the incredible variety of marine life in the shallow and warm waters around Kisite Island; the venue for numerous birds.

We escort Scuba divers to explore a number of excellent dive sites, also teeming with an astounding variety of Marine life which inhabit the magnificent coral reefs in and around the park.

A sumptuous Swahili style seafood lunch is served at Wasini Island Restaurant. Thereafter visit the traditional Muslim village before returning to your hotel late afternoon.